The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Maccani

The Map of Salt and Stars

by Jennifer Zeynab Maccani

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across the Levant and North Africa in search of safety.

800 years before, Rawiya, disguised as a boy and apprenticed to a famous map maker, set out on an epic quest to chart the globe, following the very same route.

In The Map of Salt & Stars, the tales of these two heroines coming of age in perilous times interweave, and shine a light on a country in turmoil, human resilience and the power of stories.

Reviewed by readingwithbecs on

3 of 5 stars

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Normally when a book is divided in a back-in-time perspective and a now-a-days perspective, I tend to like the back-in-time perspective the most. But in this book I did not care much for the story of Rawiya. I did get more interested in it right at the end, but for most of the book, it was just pages to get trough to get to Nour's story - which I did enjoy, and is the reason why I give the book three stars.

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